Chapter Summaries

Zhou Jun witnessed Pangu open the heavens and shape the Primordial Wilderness, absorbing Heaven-Opening intent and gathering materials to form a body. After Pangu’s transformation and the scattering of treasures, the Heaven Measuring Ruler chose Zhou Jun, who intercepted fragments of the Chaos Green Lotus before an unknown force pulled him away.

• Zhou Jun awoke as a bodiless True Spirit in Hundun and witnessed Pangu split Heaven and Earth with the Sky-Opening Axe.
• As Pangu stabilized the new world with the treasures formed from his axe, Zhou Jun absorbed Heaven-Opening intent and gathered Demon God blood, a willow branch, and Broken Stones to nurture a body.
• Pangu released the Primordial Wilderness and transformed into its features, mountains, rivers, seas, and other parts of the world; Zhou Jun received a share of Heaven-Opening Merit as its first True Spirit.
• The Eye of the Great Dao shattered the Creation Jade Butterfly, and a lingering remnant thought sent one fragment flying away before the Chaos Green Lotus also broke apart.
• When the supreme treasures and fragments scattered, the Heaven Measuring Ruler flew to Zhou Jun, who caught it and intercepted some Chaos Green Lotus fragments.
• An unknown force pulled Zhou Jun away before he could gather more fragments.

Zhou Jun awakened in Wuyi Mountain Grotto-Heaven as the First Innate Earth Dragon and learned about his treasures and Earth Dao affinity. When the Ferocious Beast Tribulation began, he organized and purified the local Earth Veins, earning Great Dao Merit, but remained trapped in his nurturing state and resolved to wait until he was stronger.

• Zhou Jun awakened within a twelve-petal Purifying World White Lotus in Wuyi Mountain Grotto-Heaven and recognized the treasures being nurtured around him.
• Zhou Jun discovered he was the First Innate Earth Dragon and examined his origins, inheritance, and four treasures: the Innate Willow Whip, Green Lotus Hoe, Leyline Map, and Eighteen Earth Fiend Pearls.
• Zhou Jun learned that the world was nearing completion and decided to comprehend the Earth Dao while still being nurtured.
• When the Ferocious Beast Tribulation began, Zhou Jun sensed an evil force threatening the Primordial Wilderness's Earth Veins and used his treasures to inspect, organize, and purify the area around Wuyi Mountain Grotto-Heaven.
• Zhou Jun received Great Dao Merit for his efforts, which deepened his understanding of the Earth Dao.
• Zhou Jun restrained his desire to enter the world and organize its Earth Veins, recognizing that he had not yet taken form and was too weak to face the Ferocious Beasts.

Fierce Beasts ravaged the Primordial Land, forcing the Innate Races to retreat and form alliances while discovering that slaying the beasts granted Merit. After ages of cultivation in a twelve-petaled white lotus on Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Jun finally took form and entered the world.

• Fierce Beasts corrupted by the Resentment of Chaos Gods and Demons poured out of the north and devastated the Primordial Land.
• The Innate Races retreated, formed alliances, and fought the Fierce Beasts as they sought refuge with stronger races.
• Powerful figures of the Innate Races discovered that killing Fierce Beasts granted them Merit and weakened the beasts' lingering resentment.
• The Fierce Beasts eventually grew weaker and their powerful members disappeared, giving the Innate Races room to recover and train.
• After countless ages of cultivation in a twelve-petaled white lotus on Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Jun broke through and took human form.
• Zhou Jun stepped out of the lotus and admired his reflection at the edge of the pond.

Zhou Jun began linking the Primordial Land’s Earth Veins westward, clearing blocked paths and earning Merit while preparing for the coming calamity. Shen Ni emerged as the Fierce Beast Emperor, and Zhou Jun, still far from Mount Sumeru, quietly considered what his declaration meant.

• Zhou Jun surveyed Wuyi Mountain and reflected on his cultivation art, Eight Directions Earth Kun, which let him travel through linked Earth Veins while concealing his whereabouts.
• Zhou Jun decided to prepare the Western Land’s Earth Veins before the next calamity, hoping to limit damage and gain Merit and Causality-related benefits.
• Zhou Jun traveled west, connecting Earth Vein nodes, purifying Baleful Energy, collecting Fierce Beast corpses, and receiving Merit as he worked.
• The northern Innate Races grew confident against the Fierce Beast armies and began discussing counterattacks and reclaiming their homelands.
• Shen Ni emerged from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, proclaimed himself Fierce Beast Emperor, and was acknowledged by heaven and earth.
• The alliances began arranging their response to the true Fierce Beast Calamity while Zhou Jun, still short of Mount Sumeru, pondered Shen Ni’s declaration.

Zhou Jun comprehended a life-bound avatar technique and created Daoist Dikun while Shen Ni launched the Ferocious Beast army against the Primordial Wilderness. Zhou Jun and Dikun began exploring how their division into Original Self and True Self might lead to a method for attaining sainthood.

• Zhou Jun realized he could create an avatar and entered seclusion in the Pure World White Lotus to comprehend his nature.
• Shen Ni ordered the Ferocious Beast army to destroy the Primordial Wilderness, then stayed behind to cultivate as the beasts rampaged.
• The Innate Alliance summoned powerful figures to discuss how to resist Shen Ni, while Five Elements Daoist, Yin Yang Daoist, Qiankun, Luohu, and Hongjun headed north.
• After an unknown span of time, Zhou Jun awakened beside his newly created life-bound avatar, Daoist Dikun.
• Daoist Dikun proposed that their division into Original Self and True Self might develop into a method for attaining sainthood, and both agreed after calculating and deducing.

Zhou Jun and Di Kun agreed to pursue ambitious plans, with Di Kun heading north to establish ties with the Earth Dragon Clan while Zhou Jun worked to restore the Western Land’s Earth Veins. After connecting the veins to Mount Sumeru, Zhou Jun strengthened the West and received a great influx of Fortune and Merit, while Luohu sensed the land’s increased origin and entered seclusion to comprehend it.

• Zhou Jun persuaded Di Kun to take part in the discussion of the Dao and pursue their own share of the Immortal Dao.
• Di Kun took the Measuring Ruler and several stalks of White Bamboo, then headed north to link an Earth Vein and seek out the Earth Dragon Clan.
• Zhou Jun returned to the West and spent years clearing and repairing its Earth Veins until he reached Mount Sumeru, where his state of mind broke through.
• Zhou Jun secretly dug beneath Mount Sumeru and connected its Earth Vein node, causing the Western Land’s spiritual energy and Fortune to surge.
• Zhou Jun escaped to Wuyi Mountain with the descending Merit, while a Devil Race member searched Mount Sumeru and found no one.
• Luohu sensed the increased Fortune and origin of the Western Territory and entered seclusion to comprehend it.

Luohu wondered who had strengthened the Western Land before turning his attention to the northern Dao discussion. After Zhou Jun gained merit and advanced his cultivation, he reinforced Mount Sumeru and began speculating that the underworld and Earthly Dao might be suppressing the corpses and resentment of the Chaos Gods and Demons.

• Luohu found that the Western Land had stabilized and grown stronger, suspected that Hongjun, Shichen, Causality, Fate, or World Destruction was behind it, and decided to attend the Dao discussion in the north.
• Zhou Jun absorbed merit in Wuyi Mountain Grotto-Heaven, formed a Golden Wheel of Merit, advanced to the middle stage of the Grand Unity Dao Fruit, and developed his distinctive Dao Flower cultivation path.
• Zhou Jun gained one-tenth of the Western Land's fortune and comprehended Vein Condensation, a divine ability that created earth-vein nodes.
• Zhou Jun traveled through the earth to Mount Sumeru and spent one yuan clearing and reinforcing its earth veins, strengthening the mountain's Dao charm.
• Zhou Jun considered whether the underground world contained the suppressed corpses of Chaos Gods and Demons and whether the underworld and Earthly Dao helped restrain their resentment.

Zhou Jun speculated that ancient calamities and the decline of several regions were part of a hidden struggle between Pangu and surviving Chaos Gods and Demons. He resolved to prepare more carefully, investigate the Three Paths, and travel to Mount Zhou after connecting the Western Land.

• Zhou Jun calculated that Mount Zhou stood at the center of the Primordial Wilderness, while the east had prospered and the north, west, and south had suffered different forms of decline.
• Zhou Jun suspected that the Chaos Gods and Demons had schemed to weaken the Primordial Wilderness and escape Pangu's suppression through successive Kalpas of Calamity.
• Zhou Jun questioned whether Hongjun's Merge with the Dao and the Twelve Ancestral Witches' origins had been influenced by hidden forces tied to Time, Fate, and Karma.
• Zhou Jun planned to connect the Western Land, clear its Earth Veins toward Mount Zhou, and investigate the Three Paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• Zhou Jun recognized that struggles over the Dao made his future plans more dangerous and resolved to prepare more comprehensively.

Zhou Jun strengthened the Western Continent’s Earth Veins and devised a gradual plan to purify the Resentful Energy and Earth Fiend Qi beneath Mount Sumeru. After connecting Earth Veins across the Primordial Land, Di Kun arrived at Inverted Mountain for the first Dao Discussion and challenged the powerful beings seated at its center.

• Zhou Jun connected the Western Continent’s Earth Vein nodes, studied formations, and used them to reinforce and purify the continent’s Earth Veins.
• Five or six epochs passed as Di Kun connected Earth Veins across the Primordial Land, linking the Northern Continent with Mount Zhou Territory.
• Di Kun learned that the first Dao Discussion would take place at Fellow Daoist Niluan’s Inverted Mountain and traveled there while remaining concealed within the Earth Veins.
• Di Kun reached Inverted Mountain, released his aura, and made his way past the assembled Innate Gods and Demons toward the central seats.
• Di Kun withstood the surrounding beings’ auras and reached the center, where the seated powerhouses released their auras to test him.

Di Kun joined Niluan and the other powerful Daoists at Inverted Mountain, where they exchanged Dao insights before beginning the first Discussion of the Dao. Niluan spoke first, and the chapter ended as another Daoist began expounding on the Five Elements.

• Di Kun used his Great Dao of Earth to redirect and assimilate the surrounding Daoists’ powers as he made his way to the gathering’s central position.
• Niluan, Five Elements, Qiankun, Yin Yang, Zaohua, Jiemie, Hongjun, and Luohu introduced themselves, and Di Kun gave his name.
• The assembled beings released their laws and Dao charm, gaining insight as their powers intertwined across Inverted Mountain.
• A bell announced the start of the first Discussion of the Dao, and Niluan began speaking about Heaven, Earth, and Chaos.
• Golden flowers appeared as Heaven and Earth absorbed Niluan’s Dao, helping beings across the mountain gain enlightenment and some begin following his path.
• After Niluan stopped speaking, another Daoist began expounding on the Five Elements.

During the Dao discussion at Inverted Mountain, Di Kun refined his own path by learning from the others before expounding the Earth Dao through Leyline Energy. His teaching spread across the Primordial Land, drawing cultivators toward the Earth Dao and strengthening his connection to the Earth Veins.

• Di Kun studied the Daos shared by the gathered beings and incorporated useful insights, especially in Zaohua, the Five Elements, and Qiankun.
• After everyone else finished expounding their Dao, Di Kun connected Inverted Mountain’s Earth Vein nodes and released Leyline Energy.
• Di Kun taught the Earth Dao, helping the listeners clarify their understanding and inspiring some to cultivate Leyline Energy.
• As his sermon spread across the Primordial Land, Leyline Energy enveloped beings who turned to his Dao, while Di Kun felt the Earth Veins grow closer to him.

Di Kun’s Earthly Dao lecture healed the land and spread his teachings across the Primordial Land, drawing the Great Dao’s recognition. Beings who followed the Earthly Dao hailed him as its Ancestor, a title the world had now acknowledged.

• Di Kun’s lecture inspired countless Innate Beings to convert to the Earthly Dao, while Leyline Energy repaired damaged Earth Veins and restored the land.
• Innate Beings learned Di Kun’s foundational teachings and gained a way to communicate with Earth Veins and cultivate their power.
• The Great Dao aided Di Kun in spreading the Earthly Dao throughout the world, unexpectedly fulfilling his plan to establish its foundation.
• Converted beings across the world knelt and thanked Di Kun Dao Ancestor for transmitting the Dao.
• The surrounding Innate Gods and Demons congratulated Di Kun as the Ancestor of the Earth Dao, and he accepted their salute.

At the discussion of cultivation realms, Di Kun suspected Hongjun intended to establish the Immortal Dao and monopolize its Fortune by eliminating rival Innate Gods and Demons. He left the discussion wary of Hongjun and resolved to hide his trump cards.

• Daoist Nilan ended the discussion of the Dao and urged everyone to define cultivation realms and open a path for all living beings.
• Hongjun argued that Daluo could name their realm, but gods and demons were identities rather than realm divisions, prompting debate over what to call the stages.
• Di Kun suspected Hongjun was deliberately steering the debate toward the concept of immortals and concluded that Hongjun had devised a new Immortal Dao from a fragment of the Creation Jade Disk.
• Information from Zhou Jun led Di Kun to believe Hongjun wanted to become the Immortal Dao’s sole ancestor by absorbing the Innate Gods and Demons into the Immortal Dao and destroying those who resisted it.
• Di Kun speculated that Hongjun’s later efforts against the Witch Clan and his use of Primordial Violet Qi served that same purpose, then decided to conceal his trump cards and gave Hongjun a cold sneer.

Di Kun proposed calling the new cultivation path “immortal,” prompting Hongjun to secure the Heavenly Dao’s approval and join the gathered gods and demons in naming cultivation realms. Di Kun then defined the Great Luo Dao Fruit Realm, leaving the reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons with a clearer understanding of their former power and the path ahead.

• Di Kun argued that pioneers who pursued the Dao should be called immortals, and Hongjun secretly used a fragment of the Jade of Creation to gain the Heavenly Dao’s approval before the gathered gods and demons agreed.
• Daoist of Creation, Yin Yang Daoist, and Five Elements Daoist proposed the Heavenly Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, and Golden Immortal realms, respectively.
• Daoist of Inversion defined the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Hongjun explained how one could advance to Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Di Kun declared that the Great Luo Dao Fruit Realm began with creating Dao methods, deriving creation, passing down Dao lineages, forming Dao fruits, and becoming master of a Dao.
• Heaven and earth resonated with Di Kun’s declaration, and the reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons realized that their former realm had been the Great Luo Dao Fruit Realm.

Di Kun established the Great Luo Dao Fruit as a realm beyond the Immortal Dao, disrupting Hongjun’s plan to bring all cultivators under it. Hongjun’s shock left Di Kun wary of future attempts on his life, but confident that his Earth Path would let him escape.

• The Great Dao praised the Innate Gods and Demons’ discussion, and Merit descended, with Di Kun receiving three-tenths.
• Hongjun realized Di Kun’s Great Luo Dao Fruit realm had severed the highest cultivation goal from the Immortal Dao.
• Di Kun reflected that Primordial Golden Immortal was a shortcut based on Fortune or Slaying the Three Corpses rather than truly comprehending the Dao.
• Di Kun reasoned that Hongjun could not kill him directly because of their Causality, but might use another person to do so.
• Di Kun trusted that his title as Ancestor of the Earth Path would let him escape detection by traveling through the Earth Veins.

Di Kun returned to Wuyi Mountain after the discussion of the Dao, gaining new insight into the Earthly Dao and becoming its Ancestor. He and Zhou Jun agreed to delay elevating the Primordial Wilderness until they could attain Mythical Grand Unity, fearing that the timelines might converge and expose them to the powers of the original realm.

• Di Kun left Inverted Mountain through an Earth Vein node, while the gathered Innate Gods and Demons failed to track his whereabouts.
• Di Kun returned to Wuyi Mountain, cultivated on a nine-grade Pure World White Lotus, and improved Eight Directions Earth Kun through his new insights.
• Di Kun attained the position of Ancestor of the Earth Dao and deepened his understanding of the Earth Veins.
• Zhou Jun joined Di Kun in his enlightenment, and their shared thoughts and memories blended together.
• Di Kun told Zhou Jun that he planned to test an idea at Mount Zhou that might lead to Mythical Grand Unity.
• Zhou Jun proposed elevating the Primordial Wilderness, but Di Kun warned that doing so before attaining Mythical Grand Unity could merge their timeline with the true Primordial Wilderness and leave them vulnerable to its great powers.

Zhou Jun weighed how to clear the depths of the Earth Veins without endangering the Western Continent, and decided to begin beneath Wuyi Mountain. Meanwhile, the Fierce Beasts drove the Innate Alliance from the Northern Territory, then occupied the Northern Continent and waited.

• Di Kun advised Zhou Jun to connect the Primordial Land while avoiding the depths of the Earth Veins until they understood the Earthly Dao better.
• Zhou Jun considered how the balance between the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao could affect future events and concluded that clearing deep Earth Veins might be essential to his Great Dao.
• Zhou Jun rejected connecting Mount Sumeru to the depths of the Earth Veins before the War of Immortals and Demons ended, fearing Luohu's plans could unleash destructive energies across the Western Continent.
• Zhou Jun decided to start clearing the deep Earth Veins beneath Wuyi Mountain, where their energies could strengthen the mountain after being transformed.
• The Fierce Beast armies overwhelmed the Innate Alliance and forced its members, including Niluan, to flee the Northern Territory with their dao fields.
• The Fierce Beasts stopped pursuing the retreating alliance, settled across the Northern Continent, and ravaged its mountains and rivers.

Shen Ni declared the establishment of the Ferocious Beast Dynasty and unleashed its army across the Primordial Wilderness, crushing the Innate Alliance’s attempt to stop it. As the Ferocious Beasts ravaged the land and their fortune strengthened Shen Ni, he vowed to destroy Pangu’s world and restore Hundun.

• The Innate Beings united and marched north, where they found Ferocious Beasts slaughtering their own kind and fought them at the Northern Territory’s border.
• Shen Ni announced that he inherited the Chaos Gods and Demons’ will, established the Ferocious Beast Dynasty, and used the God-Slaying Spear to suppress its fortune.
• The Ferocious Beast army charged through the Innate Alliance, scattered its forces, and poured out of the Northern Territory into the Primordial Wilderness.
• The surviving Innate Beings fled toward their clans as the alliance collapsed and the Ferocious Beasts spread across the land.
• From the Ferocious Beast Lair, Shen Ni absorbed the beasts’ surging fortune and the resentment of gods and demons, then vowed to destroy Pangu’s world and await Hundun’s return.

Di Kun journeyed up Mount Zhou, studying its Dao charm and formations while aiding gestating Innate Sacred Beings. His and Zhou Jun’s consciousnesses merged in a wondrous state, bringing Zhou Jun face-to-face with his past and the flaws within himself as he began to comprehend Pangu’s Dao.

• Di Kun reached Mount Zhou, bowed to Pangu, and began sensing the mountain’s Dao charm through its Earth Veins.
• Di Kun explored Mount Zhou’s formations, adding them to the Leyline Map and taking only a brush, a Chaos Spirit Stone, and some Innate Green Bamboo.
• Di Kun aided gestating Innate Sacred Beings by tending their Earth Veins and improving their environments with formations.
• A wondrous state drew Zhou Jun back from beneath Wuyi Mountain, and his and Di Kun’s thoughts and divine senses merged on Mount Zhou.
• Zhou Jun revisited memories of his previous life and reincarnation, while his Creation Dao Charm drew in Pangu’s Dao charm.
• Zhou Jun recognized his arrogance, prejudice, and suppressed madness as dangers that could become inner demons.

Di Kun and Zhou Jun reached separate understandings of their true selves, becoming united yet impossible to identify as one entity unless they revealed it. After the Leyline Map advanced on Mount Zhou, Di Kun questioned whether Mount Zhou’s prophesied collapse and later calamities served a greater plan, and left the mountain determined to seek a Creation Jade Disc Fragment.

• Zhou Jun described himself as the Original Self, while Di Kun called himself the True Self and refused to explain further before leaving their shared consciousness.
• Di Kun returned to his body atop Mount Zhou and found that depicting the mountain had advanced the Leyline Map into a High-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.
• Di Kun realized Zhou Jun and he were now united like yin and yang, but no one could detect that they were originally one entity unless they revealed it.
• Di Kun wondered whether the collapse of Mount Zhou was an inevitable part of the Primordial Wilderness’s progress or a scheme by Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Kun suspected Hongjun might manipulate later calamities after merging with the Dao and resolved to find a Creation Jade Disc Fragment before his theories grew more confused.